The Viscountness of Winesly the Lady Aria found her husband dead and realized that the poison she had made had killed him. She was sure that she and her sister Sophia would both pay for the crime. She left her husband dead on the floor and found her sister held tight in the arms of the 17-year-old footman Robert Davies. She told him they would have to leave and sailed to America so that her sister would not hang. They could get married on the ship on their way to America and she would join them as soon as she could. When her brother-in-law came, he declared that she had killed his brother and wrote to his cousin demanded that he come in and hang her for murder. His cousin who was the magistrate of the county was the Earl of Evershed he brought his doctor with him Alexander Baine to investigate the late Viscount's death. Ms. Stuart has written a nice little book which is full of mysterious doings and going on's. It keeps you turning its pages trying to figure out who actually did kill the Viscount...
A young woman marries an older man who happens to be the worse kind of man wanting to be under every skirt he could find including her and her younger sister unknown to them at the time. One night Aria wakes to find her husband Henry on the floor of his room dead she assumes her sister Sophia and Robert did it and she hurries to her sister's room to find her and Robert together and encourages them to leave and take a ship to America where they will be safe. Aria is willing to hang for her sister. But things are not as simple as that Aria is responsible for the creation but someone or two or more persons killed Henry. A very intriguing look into the Aristocracy in the 1800s when women were mere chattel. Mysterious thriller, drama, suspense, lies, betrayal, love, and death. I read a copy via BookFunnel without obligation. I volunteered an honest review.